A “strange” verse stood out to me this morning. Somehow it doesn’t seem like the kind of verse to be featured here.

Nevertheless, I found it restful, so here it is:

“Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come” (John 7:30).

I believe as it was with Jesus, so it is with each of us. That is, we live on God’s schedule.

And nothing happens to me outside His knowledge and schedule.

Let me remember and rest in that also.

Here I sit in my office in the basement. Earlier this morning I sat at the kitchen table, updating one of my business Web sites. Later on today I expect to sit in my car, at the library, and perhaps on the back porch steps. I could go down in the woods and sit on a stump or on a fallen tree or on the creek bank.

Wherever I may sit, Jesus is there.

That means He is here — sitting with me, as He did with them:

“And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples” (John 6:3).

That is such a restful picture to me.

If I can remember that through the day, my own experience shall be restful.

So let me remember that Jesus sits (and walks and lies down) with me.